Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi issued decrees giving himself broad powers and effectively neutering the judiciary. Morsi, an Islamist hailing from the Muslim Brotherhood, defends the step as necessary to clear obstacles holding up Egypt’s transition, particularly from judges who could have disbanded a controversial assembly writing the constitution or overturned his decisions. Critics say Morsi, who already holds both executive and legislative powers, is setting himself up as a new dictator.
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A look at powers decreed by Egypt’s president
Here is a look at the main points of his decrees:
- All laws and decisions by the president are final, cannot be appealed, overturned or halted by the courts or other bodies. This applies to decisions he has made since taking office in June and any he makes until a new constitution is approved and a new parliament is elected, expected in the spring at the earliest.
- No judicial body can dissolve the upper house of parliament or the assembly writing the new constitution. Both are dominated by the Brotherhood and other Islamists and several cases demanding their disbanding were before the courts, which previously dissolved the lower house of parliament.
- The president can take any steps or measures necessary to prevent threats to “the revolution, the life of the nation or national unity and security” or to the functioning of state institutions.
- A new judiciary body of “protection of the revolution” is created to reopen investigations, prosecutions and trials of former regime officials, including ousted President Hosni Mubarak, for the killing of protesters during last year’s uprising. Other police officers accused of killings, however, will not be retried.
- The controversial prosecutor general, a Mubarak appointee seen by many as lax in pursuing former regime figures, was removed from his post.
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“The decisions and declarations announced on November 22 raise concerns for many Egyptians and for the international community,” said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
Nuland is the one who claims she is paid to be dumb….
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And this, in a nutshell, is what islam is about:
The establishment of an Islamic leader that ultimately must not be questioned. NO democratic rights, no disagreement allowed, just total enslavement to the will of the islamic leader, and enslavement of the people to the will of one, for the sake of Islam…
This is the ideology…the very stuff that makes fascists, antichrists….drawn from the very murky mirehead known as satan…
Thank the monkey on Capitol Hill.
Not that bad, really. At least he didn’t say he was taking over all the economy, business profits, taxation, etc. for his own benefit and that of his bearded cronys. So feel relieved, and walk like an Egyptian.
either the West (USA EU…) were blind, or they wanted this result”
Of course Mubarak and the old ‘regime’ was better, but bho in 2009 gave the go ahead for the islamists to get the power. Democracy? they declared again and again it was about democracy, knowing well that it will not work there! And the ‘liberal’ nobel price (?!!) for peace elbaradei, the one who ‘never discovered that Iran was going nuclear’, he instigate the first ‘spring’, now again against mirsi…but himself was supporting the islamists , same for amr mousa…the other contendent is a communist and also preaches the hate for Israel….
What a mess, and who gains from it?
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